Clive Emson Auctioneers: first auction of eight for 2024

CHAPEL PLACE: An 18th Century property with planning permission for seven flats, previously a former adult education centre at Ramsgate, Kent, which also served as a vicarage in the past, has a guide price of £600,000 (lot 89) and is among 135 lots listed across southern England in the first auction of eight by Clive Emson Auctioneers this year. The auction ends 7 February, with bidding live 48 hours beforehand.

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The regional land and property auctioneers have been instructed by vendors to sell 71 vacant residential lots, 16 investment, 30 commercial, 11 development and seven grazing/land.

Ending on 7 February, with bidding live 48 hours beforehand, it is the firm’s first auction of eight this year.

James Emson, Managing Director, said: “There is a diverse mix of lots at prices to suit all budgets, from first-time buyers looking to get a foot on the housing ladder and buy-to-let landlords expanding investment portfolios to property developers and residents interested in purchasing pockets of neighbourhood land.

“Vendors include local authorities offloading non-core assets, with the financial transparency that comes with bidding at auction.”

A former community centre school, cadet hall, school and adult education centre in Kent are among the lots.

Swayle Borough Council has instructed the disposal of a former community centre at Minster-on-Sea, Sheerness, which has a guide price of £130,000 - £140,000 (lot 128).

With planning permission for three homes, the former Harrietsham School (pictured below) near Maidstone is guided at £480,000 - £490,000 (lot 28).

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It’s a case of ‘bidders fall in!’ with the former cadet hall in Westerham, near Sevenoaks, on the market with a guide price of £300,000 - £320,000 (lot 38); consent would be needed for alternative uses.

An 18th Century property with planning permission for seven flats, previously a former adult education centre at Ramsgate which also served as a vicarage in the past, is guided at £600,000 (lot 89).

In neighbouring Essex, a parcel of land and commercial units situated adjacent the picturesque Alderford Water Mill in the village of Sible Hedingham, has a guide price of £215,000 (lot 133).

The yard has four lock-up units plus an office as well as a yard area behind lockable gates. Planning permission has been granted for an executive-style house.

Let at £41,400 pa, a six-bedroom house in multiple occupation in Eastbourne, East Sussex, has a guide price of £300,000 (lot 91).

Also in East Sussex, at Forest Row, in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Beauty, a residential investment let to a statutory tenant at £26,400 pa, with the original registration commencing from June 1973, is guided at £500,000-plus (lot 94).

Close to Greenham Common, near Newbury in Berkshire, Lavander Cottage has a guide price of £550,000 - £600,000 (lot 113).

Fronting the landmark Queens Hotel in Southsea, near Portsmouth, is a five-storey residential building, with a “rarity freehold” for the street and a guide price of £4000,000 - £450,000 (lot 126).

Video: https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/247/126/

Cornwall Council has instructed the disposal of former public toilets on the seafront at Penzance. With picturesque views towards St Michael's Mount and Mount's Bay, the property is guided at £20,000-plus (lot 131).

Executors are selling 3 Custom House Hill in the port harbour town of Fowey, Cornwall, with a guide price of £235,000 - £250,000; the property is arranged over three floors as a retail unit with a flat on the first floor (lot 14).

Receivers have instructed the disposal of seven residential self-contained flats, currently let at £30,800 pa, in Torquay, Devon, and with a guide price of £400,000-plus (lot 54).

Video: https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/247/54/